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The Republicans Who Want to Raise Your Taxes

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 20th, 2013 at 08:48 PM  | 

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Remember 66 Canal Center Plaza?

In November of last year I documented how much of the Romney Campaign’s third party operations were run out of 66 Canal Center Plaza.

Suite 555 of Canal Center Plaza houses Black Rock Group, Crossroads Media, WWP Strategies, TargetPoint Consulting, and Americans for Job Security.

A number of these groups either directly helped the Romney campaign or worked with the outside groups who helped the Romney campaign. The New York Times produced an awesome graphic of the incestuous ties in Suite 555.

Oddly enough, yesterday I got an email from Americans for Job Security promoting the Marketplace Fairness Act. The email had a link to a post written by the President of Americans for Job Security, which had been posted at RedState in the diaries. The link generated a bad URL to http://cts.vresp.com/c/?BlackRockGroup/f86f0b76b3/TEST/8d78837e18.

Suite 555 has gone from making millions off Mitt Romney to helping states try to make millions off you in massive new streams of tax revenue while driving up the burden on small businesses, putting them at a disadvantage to big businesses.

And you know what’s so funny about it?

Late today, in response to my morning post, something called the Marketplace Fairness Coalition tried to rebut me by accusing me of being in the pocket of Ebay.

That was the best they could do. While I’m not in anybody’s pocket, I do find it interesting that 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 555, has moved on from taking money out of your pocket to fund Mitt Romney and now wants to take money out of your pocket to fund the leviathan. And just like with Mitt Romney, they’ll tell you this is conservative too.

By the way, they’re also trolling our comments here at RedState using anonymous proxies through Turkey to hide which offices are actually generating the comments. I bet they come from Canal Center Plaza.

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  • carolina

    They must think we are stupid.

  • ceili_dancer

    Definitely needs to be excised from the political landscape.

  • Alo Konsen

    Statists. May they all rot.

  • tscottme2

    We keep nominating their hand-picked fall guys. Some of us seem to be very stupid. If the word “electable” is uttered in relation to a syphilitic camel that camel would instantly become the front-runner in the GOP nomination fight.

    GOP voters keep trying to short-circuit or avoid fights and that is how we have gotten in this mess. Now that few of us can fight, we won’t fight, and any implausible excuse is a good enough reason to “surrender today so we can be ready for the future fight.”

    The RINO voters want to be told someone is the magic messiah that will fix it all. The RINO wing tells us their guy is a sure thing and too many let hope triumph over experience and vote for the next RINO selectee. We have done this to ourselves. We could not even mount a campaign to threaten John Boehner’s reign.

  • cpyron

    more evidence that it’s all about the RINO elite influence peddling at the taxpayers’ expense … not about conservative principles!

  • NuMex Phil

    I’ve seen several posts here at RS as well as other sites that keep promoting the false premise that this really won’t be a burden, that software, API, whatever is already there and merchants just have to simply plug in. Poppycock. They are either reps from companies trying to peddle such non-functional software, or more likely from one of these front groups working on behalf of big-crony-business and/or liberal state politicians who don’t have a clue. Like most big-government ‘solutions’, this is exactly the wrong, worst, most convoluted solution possible to a problem.

  • NuMex Phil

    I saw the CR passed–did this amendment get tacked on or not? I want to know if I need to start hammering my Rep.

  • http://www.facebook.com/michael.shreve.94 Michael Shreve

    Somehow, I’m a conservative and I want to RAISE your taxes seems off-kilter. Granted RINO’S and CINO’s are hard at it, but EVERY true conservative KNOWS that ALL governments extort too much of our money already.

  • texmark

    Yes, if someone says we should vote for a candidate in a primary who is “electable,” my response is, “Yes, we sure need to vote for a candidate who is electable, for example, like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. That’s the way to win the office.”

  • MF

    Cruz, I’ve read a lot and strongly liked nearly everything I’ve read. Carson is still a bit of an unknown in quite a few areas, and needs quite a bit more exploration. Certainly very promising, but let’s not rush into the latest phenom. Herman Cain came on big in the beginning, but eventually his warts began to appear. (Not that I’m pushing for us to eat our own, as we’ve done so many times, ending up with candidates like Romney.)